I can't believe I did it.

I actually created a blog. I have thought about this a number of times and always stopped myself. I don't have a business that I am trying to build... yet. I am not a writer trying to create an audience. I don't have a theme or topic to talk about per se and half the time I don't even think I have anything worth saying at all. And stranger still... I am a very private person. It's true that I can usually babble on about almost anything, but often times I hold inside my true thoughts, feelings, and passions. There are few people who have known me well and most of them have been for a reason or a season; only one has become a lifetime.

And yet I feel compelled. Part of it is because my life had been the same for so long and then it suddenly changed. I was forced to move in a new direction. Now I am taking stock of things... weighing my options... and I am not holding things inside anymore. Part of it is because life is too short to care who reads this, if anyone does at all, and to worry what anyone thinks.

I work for a health non-profit and some of the patients and participants we come in contact with have blogs. Some blog about their health status or the treatments of their children. Others blog about their training status or their fundraising efforts. The link between them all is that they find comfort in sharing their trials and their triumphs. And they give comfort to others by saying their struggles aren't unique, but ones to which others can relate. With that thought in mind, I stopped asking why and said why not.